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Fantastic Contraption: Release Your Inner Engineer

In the world of time-wasting, flash games may be the ruling elite.  Simple games like Motherload and Portal: The Flash Version have gotten me through countless long days at work.  And now that I've discovered Fantastic Contraption, I just might never work again.

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D&D 4th Edition Reinvents Itself, but in a Good Way

WotC's Dungeons and Dragons Fourth Edition introduces a slew of changes to the venerable franchise, from a new modern look and feel to streamlined gameplay rules and a completely redesigned class and skill system. Today I take a look at the Player's Handbook, and I will review the Dungeon Master's Guide and Monster Manual in upcoming articles.

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Frotz for the iPhone and iPod Touch!

It wasn't too long ago that I noticed a nerdcore rapper tackling the subject of text based adventure games.  Now it seems that the popular software (popular amongst us text based adventure game enthusiasts that is) Frotz has been ported to an Apple App!

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A Totally New Way to Role-Play - The Window

These are the three precepts to a Window game: "Everything about a Window character is described with adjectives rather than numbers." "It is the actor's responsibility to play their role realistically." "A good story is the central goal.”

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Ghic Reviews Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots

Have you ever purchased a game for its simplicity? Or at least what you hoped would be simplicity? A game so simple that when you fail time and time again, you feel like the biggest idiot on the planet? I am playing such a game. Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots. I bought it because it [...]

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Ghic Reviews LEGO Star Wars II The Original Trilogy

Yes this game has been on the market for quite some time, but for me it was one of those games I kept passing by. It *looked* interesting, but not interesting enough to rent or buy. I couldn’t take it seriously.Recently I was browsing the Greatest Hit’s section at Walmart- you know, that $19.95 and [...]

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Ghic Chic Review: Juiced 2 Hot Import Nights on PS2

It’s a hot summer night. You have a powerful ride and pompous attitudes are in the air. You hear the revving of the engines, the stereos crank up and the city streets are yours to burn rubber on for a nice cash prize. From the hilly roads of San Francisco to the icy turns in a [...]

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ArsGeek and @XI Computers Partnership

We’re proud to announce that we’ve partnered with @XI Computers and we’ll soon be expanding our reviews to include PC games thanks to an amazing new system provided by @XI. There certainly is nothing like a gaming experience on an Intel quad core extreme machine, water cooled and using one of Nvidia’s latest [...]

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More Geeky Gifts Ideas For Under 30 Dollars!

With the gatherings extending well into the new year for those post holiday get togethers, it’s not too late to complete your list or get a little something for yourself. USB Missile Launcher Stir Up Some Mayhem to Break Up the Monotony — Is your 9 to 5 getting you down? Ever find yourself bored and frustrated on [...]

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Fighting Games: DOA vs. Tekken

Two old video games revisited: One of the things I’ve enjoyed most about the Xbox is DOA. The graphics and fluid movement has yet to be beaten by other consoles or games. I don’t know if I’m just missing a gem of a game out there that can rival it, but so far if you’re into [...]

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Holiday Gathering Geeky Game Suggestion

During the winter months and holiday season, families find themselves coming together more and more frequently. As the festivities are in full swing, the good old board games is dusted off and once more we gather around to partake in what I like to call Parker Brothers Family Therapy Sessions. Board games allow us to revert [...]

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Ghic Chic Reviews “Soul Nomad and the World Eaters”

Finally a game that keeps me busy, entertained and interested (and a little frustrated due to my own lack of skills). I first began this game weeks ago and unfortunately regular life gets in the way so that I may afford the electricity to power up my PS2 and purchase food so that I’m not balling [...]

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Something Wickedly Awesome Comes My Way

Well folks, aside from my own hectic personal life, nuzzling my new Chanel hand bag, and my 7-3 job, I have been on a writing hiatus due to quite a few interesting items sent my way in the past 2 weeks. Video Games Juiced 2 (FINALLY a racing game I can get into) Soul Nomad and the World [...]

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Review: ArsGeek reviews Talisman

For more photos, be sure to see our Flickr Talisman photo stream! Black Industries recently came out with a new version (the fourth) of a wonderful game that I used to play when I was younger. This game, Talisman, has gone through a number of revisions. The best of them by far being [...]

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